Korn Shell

[aeusesef at csun.UUCP]

In a previous article, I write:
  Is there a way to pass parameters into aliases in Korn Shell?  That is, in
  Berkely, I would use something on the order of '!*';
  Is there something equivalent for ksh?

Later, Guy Harris (guy%%gorodish at Sun.COM) writes:
  Berkeley isn't a huge city; I presume that if you can use that piece of C
  shell syntax within the city limits, you can use it outside the city
  limits as well.
All right, everybody makes mistakes.  I just happen to have made my first
one in a posting (8-)).
  
  I think you meant "in the C shell"; not all systems that have the C
  shell are primarily derived from code in BSD distributions of UNIX,
  and not all people using systems so derived use the C shell.
  
  The C shell uses aliases both to perform command aliasing and to
  provide "built-in" shell scripts.  The Bourne and Korn shells use
  "shell functions" to do the latter.

Yes, that is true.  My problem is that I would like to alias cd, which Korn
shell will allow me to do.  Apparantly, it looks through aliases first,
built-ins second, functions third, and PATH fourth.  I tried making a
function called cd, but it didn't work, and an alias called cd did work, but
I was unable to pass parameters into it.  Any one have any suggestions?

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